Did an SEC official release just give Texas bulletin board material?

If you thought it was going to be civil to have two different schools claim the abbreviation "UT", well, you don't know the SEC.

Just days after Texas officially joined the nation's most prestigious college football conference, the SEC released it's official preseason all-conference teams. Among the hidden notes in the release was an apparent endorsement of Tennessee, not Texas, as the conference's official "UT."

Forget the potential controversy over whether Georgia's Carson Beck or Texas' Quinn Ewers belongs as QB1 for the conference's preseason first team. No, the real meaty controversy was someone in the conference's communications department choosing to annotate Tennessee's Cooper Mays as being from "UT" and Texas' Kelvin Banks Jr. being from "TEX."

Obviously, this could have been avoided if the conference comms department had chosen to say Cooper Mays was from "TEN" rather than "UT." Instead, they chose violence (we kid, we kid).

Still, don't sleep on whether this is enough to provide bulletin board material when Texas and Tennessee finally face off in 2026.